TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for José Branco
The objectives of the project are:
- Improve youth workers’ skills with practical tools and experiential non-formal activities on conflict, conflict management, prejudice and migration issues;
- Improve youth work quality and enhance the role of youth workers and NGOs as social facilitators spreading European values and a culture of peace;
- Develop the competence of empathy as a skill linked to positive conflict management;
- Enhance the participants’ attitude in transforming conflict situations into learning opportunities;
- Share among youth workers and partners common concerns about issues of conflict, conflict management, migration and prejudice, exchange good practices and tools;
- Enhance international cooperation, including trust between participants and organisations;
- Promote heightened recognition of the educational value of NFE activities for building a more aware and understanding Europe.
The project “One last chance” consists of one training course towards equipping youth workers and youth leaders with the values and attitudes we believe are pertinent to construct a new and improved multicultural Europe.
Two participant from each organization:
1. Narviksenteret (Norway)
2. Ha Moment (Portugal)
3. Kulturno izobrazevalno drustvo PiNA (Slovenia)
4. Asociación Mundus - Un Mundo a tus Pies (Spain)
5. Associazione Agrado (Italy)
6. Youth Pioneers (UK)
7. INEX - Sdruzeni Dobrovolnych Aktivit (Czech
Republic)
8. Keuropa (Finland)
9. Crosscare Limited (Ireland)
10. Seiklejate Vennaskond (Estonia)
11. City of Gothenburg (Sweden)
I used creative methods like gamification (addressing conflict management and stereotypes discrimination) when using Typecast card game and making part of the facilitation of Mission Z, board-game; empathy using theatrical techniques for body expression and group bonding and understanding.
The main outcome of the activities where the raising awareness towards the depth and complexity of the term 'conflict', how we sometimes participate in the sources of conflict and different ways to tackle different kinds of conflict situations.
By playing games with a meaning, participants could understand in the end the purpose of the activities and learn the lesson embedded in the games being played.
My role included all sorts of activities, the team of trainers were always supporting all activities whether it was me or other trainer facilitating.
Some activities like Typecast I took more responsibility for the facilitation of the activity in others like Mission Z, I took a supporting role before, during and after the activity.
The main and more important aspect of my tasks and responsibilities where the planning, designing and implementation of different aspects of the workshop.